The shuttle Soyuz Ms-25 successfully landed on the steppe of Kazakhstan after a three and a half hour journey from International Space Station (ISS). TO edgethe Russian cosmonauts Nikolai Chub And Oleg Kononenkowho set new records for staying in space, and the American astronaut Tracy C. Dyson.
A record of permanence in space
The cosmonauts Chub And Kononenkoreturned to Earth afterwards 374 days in orbit And 5,984 orbitshave set the new duration record for a single mission to the ISS, surpassing the previous record of 371 days. Oleg Kononenko also reached a historic milestone, with a total of 1,111 days in space in five missions, an absolute record for orbital permanence.
At the time of the Soyuz undocking, command of the ISS officially passed from Kononenko to the NASA astronaut Suni Williamswhich arrived in June on board the shuttle Starliner by Boeing. Williams will remain in command after a longer-than-expected stay due to technical problems encountered on the Starliner test flight.
A record-breaking mission also for Tracy C. Dyson
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dysonwhich he spent 184 days in orbit and completed 2,944 orbits around the Earth, had arrived on the ISS in March with the Soyuz Ms-25. During the mission, he traveled together with cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and others Marina Vasilevskayathe first Belarusian woman in space.
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